He is just fine, says the Basque Singer KéPA. However, he plays the Blues. He likes the reduction on one voice, one guitar. He sticks to this tradition but with his own style. KéPA gives the saddest genre of music a more positive undertone. In songs like “No Goat Cheese” or “Hello Babe” joy is mixed with the spirit of optimism, partly due to his vigorous and impelling way of playing: KéPA plucks and slides on his guitar, stomps his feet, plays the harmonica.He calls his sound Folk Resophonic. His silver shimmering guitar is a Resophonic, build in the 30s and it was the first guitar with an electronic amplifier. With the purchase of this instrument he started his first serious attempt to become a musician. Just a few years before, he taught himself how to sing and how to play the guitar. And he gave himself a pseudonym: the name of his grandfather.

KéPA is actually and still a professional skateboarder. Since eight years he is participating under his real name Bastien Duverdier in international competitions and is skateboarding over rough terrain from France to Burma. Meanwhile, music and skateboarding became equally important. After two EPs and several gigs in Europe, KéPA is going on an extended tour in France this summer before he is making a stop in Berlin at the Fever Creek Festival. His musical path is unstoppable. So there is absolutely no reason to be sad.